Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Sketch of an Accepted Chronology for the Life and Works of Bonaventura Vulcanius -- Looking for Vulcanius: Plethora and Lacunae -- The Many Lives of Bonaventura Vulcanius 1614-2010 (Exploring Biographies and Introducing this Collection of Papers) -- Legacies and Portraits -- "The Honour of Letters": Bonaventura Vulcanius, Scholar and Poet -- Petrus Cunaeus, Oratio in obitum B. Vulcanii habita Lugd. Batav. In acad. MDCXIV. Introduction, edition and translation -- The Portraits of Bonaventura Vulcanius -- Remarques sur les catalogues de vente aux enchères de la bibliothèque de Vulcanius -- Routes of Exile and Convictions -- Vulcanius et le réformateur Théodore de Bèze -- L'insertion de Bonaventure Vulcanius dans le réseau international protestant -- Bonaventure Vulcanius et Heidelberg, citadelle fragile du monde réformé -- Bonaventura Vulcanius, forgeron de la Révolte -- Homes: Looking Back -- Two Bruges Humanists: Vulcanius and Castelius. Good Friends or Mere Acquaintances? -- Bonaventura Vulcanius, Marnix van St. Aldegonde, and the Spirit of Bruges: Remonstrant Protestantism? -- Homes: Professor in Leiden -- Bonaventura Vulcanius, Janus Dousa and the 'Pleias Dousica' -- Between colleagues: Bonaventura Vulcanius and Justus Lipsius -- Pioneering Philology: Greeks and Getes -- Vulcanius as Editor: The Greek Texts -- Scholarly Stresses and Strains: The Difficult Dealings of Bonaventura Vulcanius and Henricus Stephanus over their Edition of Arrian's De Expeditione Alexandri Magni Historiarum Libri VIII -- Project Procopius: Scaliger, Vulcanius, Hoeschelius and the Pursuit of Early Byzantine History -- Vulcanius and his Network of Language Lovers. De literis et lingua Getarum sive Gothorum (1597) -- On the Attribution of the 1595 Leiden Edition of Pauli Warnefridi de gestis Langobardorum to Friedrich Lindenbrog.

The Runes in Bonaventura Vulcanius De literis & lingua Getarum sive Gothorum (1597): Provenance and Origins -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index nominum -- List of Contributors.